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Speaker 1: really good banger, Like I's got a chance to be

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Speaker 1: a really really good linebacking group. No, they do have

430
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Speaker 1: an opportunity that defense should be like Joey Bosa, who

431
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,320
Speaker 1: just got a hefty contract last week. Uh, he teams

432
00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,680
Speaker 1: up with Melvin Gordon. You have Derwyn James in the middle.

433
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Speaker 1: You talked about the linebacker corps like their their dbs

434
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,680
Speaker 1: because then when you have Chris Harris and Casey Hayward,

435
00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 1: desmid Keene has outstanding instincts. There's just a lot of

436
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,200
Speaker 1: playmakers and the way that they want to play in

437
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 1: this Gus Bradley defense with their eyes on the ball,

438
00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,520
Speaker 1: creating pressure, more turnovers, and if they get more turnovers

439
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 1: with the way they they want to play in terms

440
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,760
Speaker 1: of being able to run the ball, selective shots in

441
00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 1: the passing game, they're gonna be a handful because they're

442
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 1: a very very physical team. Another team you talked about

443
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 1: young players having a chance to have an impact. The

444
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,680
Speaker 1: buzz building out of Atlanta on a j T rail

445
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 1: playing cornerback. Um. Look, he was one of the more

446
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,959
Speaker 1: polarizing prospects in terms of where he was drafted, was

447
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,800
Speaker 1: he worthy of being there? But when you when you

448
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,120
Speaker 1: hear the bus coming out of Atlanta, they've just talked

449
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 1: about his ability to upgrade the secondary that the plays

450
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,440
Speaker 1: that he's already made getting his hands on the ball.

451
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 1: I liked his ability to really do a bunch of

452
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Speaker 1: different things, potentially as a nickelback, because I felt like

453
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,440
Speaker 1: he was tough enough to tackle, he could cover. Um,

454
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 1: he is a guy that can make an impact on

455
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,199
Speaker 1: the team that should be much better on defense with

456
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,560
Speaker 1: Raheem taking over. Yeah, Rahim once he once he took over,

457
00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 1: we saw the numbers immediately changed. Anymore he makes, he

458
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,720
Speaker 1: makes a difference. So, uh, No, I like that one.

459
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Speaker 1: How about anybody else, any other rookies you can think of?

460
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Speaker 1: You hear anything about? No? I mean I think everyone

461
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: has has talked about, like Chase Young and what Washington

462
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 1: wants to do upfront. Um, today we're just getting to

463
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 1: pass on. And so as my dad would say, like

464
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 1: today we separate the goat from the sheet, we'll see

465
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 1: who's real and who's not. So we will we will

466
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Speaker 1: see which guys as we begin to get the pads

467
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Speaker 1: on and start really having some live contact periods, that's

468
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 1: when we'll be able to kind of understand which guys

469
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: will be able to really make immediate contributions right away.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we've seen we've seen some contract extensions done here.

471
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Speaker 1: Uh we saw with the two tight ends. Since we

472
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: last talked with Kittle on Keltsey getting done, I know

473
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 1: you and Lance touched on that. Um. Then you also

474
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 1: have this big deal here for Kenny Clark, one of

475
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Speaker 1: those players who I don't think people understand how good

476
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,160
Speaker 1: he is. When you talk to offensive line coaches around

477
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: the league, they'll rape about him. And that's the reason

478
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: he got four years, seventy million bucks. Again, those inside

479
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,679
Speaker 1: guys that can create havoc inside man is a lot.

480
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 1: There is a need for those guys and you do

481
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: not let them ever walk out of the building. You know, DJ,

482
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,680
Speaker 1: he's flown under the radar. People don't really talk about him,

483
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Speaker 1: but you know, next to Chris Jones and and Donald

484
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 1: he has been one of the more productive interior pass

485
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: rushers the last two years. Six sacks in each of

486
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,439
Speaker 1: the last two seasons, sixteen and a half sacks heading

487
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Speaker 1: into this year. And look, we we've had more and

488
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Speaker 1: more people talk if I'm building a defense, I need

489
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: to pass rushers. It used to be two outside guys,

490
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: but now it's an inside rushier and an outside Russia.

491
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,640
Speaker 1: The inside russia is important because you need to get

492
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Speaker 1: into the quarterback's face right away. You gotta get him

493
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 1: off his spot when it comes to throwing the quick game, big,

494
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Speaker 1: big playmaker for the Green Bay Packers, and the way

495
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 1: that Mike Patton likes to attack Um using a variety

496
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,679
Speaker 1: of blitz is he creates one on one opportunities for

497
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Speaker 1: Clark on the inside. He's been able to cash in

498
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Speaker 1: those opportunities and make him into Sacks a really really

499
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Speaker 1: good football player and has in the bill are resident Packer.

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Speaker 1: Uh not even Homer. I don't even think Homer does

501
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 1: it justice Um the obsessed like stalker. He's like a

502
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: stalker of the Packers everything Packers mentioning that he's only

503
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 1: twenty four years old, so a lot of good football

504
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 1: left for him. I want to under your thoughts on

505
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. We hear a lot of buzz about defense

506
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: there with Mike Nolan and how they're using guys. Sounds

507
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: like Lawrence and Alden Smith had been standing up a

508
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Speaker 1: little bit. I don't think people really remember too when

509
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Speaker 1: Aldon Smith was in his right mind and was healthy.

510
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: I think it was under Mike Nolan right in San Francisco.

511
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Speaker 1: Just how good he was man the gym Toim Zula

512
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Speaker 1: is a defensive line coach there and under Jim tom Zula,

513
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Speaker 1: uh the first two or three season, I want to

514
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Speaker 1: say Alton Smith had thirty first two season, he had

515
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 1: thirty three and a half sacks. Dominant player. The combination

516
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Speaker 1: between he and Justine Smith was unstoppable. The way they

517
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: would run those two main games on one side, picking

518
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Speaker 1: up and under all of those t stunts. They did well.

519
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Speaker 1: Last time we saw him playing in twenty he didn't

520
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: have the same pop, didn't have the same juice off

521
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: the ball. He had become more of a power player.

522
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Speaker 1: He has gotten right, he's gotten physically, and everybody that

523
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Speaker 1: you talked to down in Dallas has talked about early

524
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Speaker 1: in camp he has really dominated off the edge. And

525
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Speaker 1: what I see from the Dallas Cowboys defensively is when

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Speaker 1: you go and sign Everson Griffin, who I don't know

527
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Speaker 1: how he was on the market for that long, what

528
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 1: they now have as a defense that can play multiple

529
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Speaker 1: with multiple players, meaning Mike Nolan is a three four guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he was with you. Was he

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Speaker 1: with you in Baltimore? So in Baltimore he wanted to

532
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: run a three or four. He run a three four defense.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of what he's known for in Dallas. He's

534
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Speaker 1: committed to run a four three, but as we know,

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Speaker 1: you can run a four three with three or four principles,

536
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Speaker 1: depending on what you do with that other edge rusher. Well,

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Speaker 1: before they signed Everything Griffin, the vision was all the

538
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Speaker 1: Smith would be that stand up guy to play opposite

539
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Speaker 1: the Marcus Lawrence. They have some pass rushers. Well, now

540
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Speaker 1: when you get Everything Griffin, who DJ Everson Griffin is

541
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Speaker 1: basically the in and out menu. He doesn't do a lot.

542
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: He's an upfield rusher and a spam compliment, but he

543
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Speaker 1: is dominant. He's a hard working player off the edge.

544
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: When now you can have him play outside the Marcus

545
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: Lawrence play outside, all the Smith can kick inside. You

546
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: can do some five man fronts with one of those

547
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: two of those guys standing up, one guy playing inside.

548
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: They can do a bunch of different things. And when

549
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: you mix in Laden vander Esh and Jalen Smith, they

550
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: can be very problematic with an a progressive rush scheme

551
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Speaker 1: to come after you. And Mike McCarthy says something I

552
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: think everyone has to understand. He talked about when you

553
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Speaker 1: explosive on offense, you invest heavily in the pass rush

554
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: because if we can jump out on you and get

555
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Speaker 1: a lead, we take away your ability to run the ball,

556
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Speaker 1: and now pass rushers can pin their ears back. The

557
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys would be a much more aggressive offense early

558
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Speaker 1: in games so they can rush the passer and then

559
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: in the second half that's when you will see Zeke

560
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: Elliott run the ball, run it out. That's how the

561
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Speaker 1: Cowboys and play and that's been the formula for them

562
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Speaker 1: to win in fourteen, sixteen and eighteen when they were

563
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Speaker 1: able to win the division. Yeah, they're gonna have to

564
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: win pressure upfront because there's still some unknowns in the secondary.

565
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Speaker 1: I like Shdobe a woozy. I think he's a He's

566
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: a really good player. You bring over ha ha. Clinton

567
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: Dicks is a veteran. But you've got the two rookies

568
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: Drafon Diggs and uh and Reggie Robinson. They've got to

569
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: get They've got to get comfortable and get up a

570
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: speed because the rest of this team is ready to go.

571
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Speaker 1: You look at this depth chart, um saved the secondary.

572
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: You want to put the front the linebackers, offensive line,

573
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: running backs, receivers, quarterback I mean it's it is a loaded,

574
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: loaded group and I think another name, Uh, just speaking

575
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Speaker 1: on the Cowboys, Blake Jarwin, I don't know how many

576
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Speaker 1: people really give him his due. Is kind of one

577
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 1: of the better young tight ends. He's a good football player.

578
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: They like him a lot, and it sounds like McCarthy

579
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Speaker 1: is is like what he's seen from him. He's gonna

580
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: use the tight end. Yeah, he's gonna use the tight end.

581
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Speaker 1: I would expect now that the Cowboys gonna be a

582
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Speaker 1: heavy eleven personnel team and so Blake Jarwin being able

583
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Speaker 1: to come in the middle of the field. But the

584
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: other guy is is really getting a lot of attention

585
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: ceedee lamb. I mean, no surprise. Um, he thought he

586
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: was one of the better players in the draft. Um

587
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: he is made some remarkable catches in camp, and now

588
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: they're they're just trying to figure out from an offensive standpoint,

589
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: how are you going to feed all the mouths that

590
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: need the ball. They all need to be fed. They're

591
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: all are hungry. Marie Cooper, Michael Gallup, Um, both of

592
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: those guys had a thousand yards. Their speculation that they

593
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: could have three thousand yard receivers. Zekiel Elliott has had

594
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards in three or four seasons. I mean,

595
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: there are a lot of weapons in dak Prescott is

596
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: one of only two quarterbacks in NFL history with forty

597
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: plus wins and fifteen thousand yards and four years. The

598
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: only other guy Dan Marino. And so this offense, this

599
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 1: front seven, they're good enough. But the big question to

600
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,959
Speaker 1: me is what you talked about. Can their cornerbacks hold up.

601
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: They have to be able to pick off some passes

602
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: because the lack of takeaways has been an achilles heel

603
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: for this Dalla Cowboys defense. Yeah, we'll see how that

604
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: all comes together, but it does sound promise. I think

605
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: that defense should be pretty darn good. Um, I want

606
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 1: to get to college player we talked about at the top.

607
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to him in just a second of

608
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. But before we do that, I wanted to

609
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: bring up one thing, kind of go back to a

610
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: conversation we previously had talking about, um, the expansion of

611
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: the practice squad going to sixteen, and we've talked about,

612
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: we've shared the ideas back and forth of okay, treating

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00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: it like a minor league system where you have some

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Speaker 1: triple A guys, some Double A guys and some rookie

615
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: level players. That was kind of our our you know,

616
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: us kind of spitballing back and forth. So I talked

617
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Speaker 1: to a general manager, presented him with that idea, and

618
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: it was interesting because he said, you know, what we've

619
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Speaker 1: done is we've already decided which positions we're going to

620
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Speaker 1: use for the sixteen spots. So we know we're going

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Speaker 1: to have, you know whatever, three offensive lineman, four offensive lineman,

622
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Speaker 1: whatever that number is, two corners, whatever. But they're they're

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Speaker 1: kind of making the shell of we need to have, uh,

624
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: these these pieces in place. And he said, you know,

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00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: in a normal year, yeah, I would love to have

626
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: some of those developmental guys. But he said with COVID

627
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: and not knowing what's going to happen week to week,

628
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: he said, this really is our you know, it's basically

629
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: a Triple A team. It's the best guys they have.

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00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: They are going to be available to step in and

631
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: play in a game because they could get you could

632
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: find out you lose three offensive lineman on a Friday

633
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: and I have to turn around to play on a Sunday.

634
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: So you've got to have some guys ready to step

635
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: onto the field and be able to help you win

636
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: football games. So I think we're well intended thinking about

637
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: long term, but I think under the stress of this

638
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: pandemic they have to treat it a little bit differently.

639
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: So my idea then is let's as as a national

640
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: football because we're going to lose some form of college football.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it with a bunch of conferences, you know,

642
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Speaker 1: the two big ones in the Power five, of the

643
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: Pack twelve and the Big Ten not playing a fall season.

644
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens in the spring, but all these

645
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: one Double a's that are not playing, um, the development

646
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: is going to be There's a gap, is what I'm

647
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: getting to. So I know they've talked about just kind

648
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: of one year only with the sixteen guys on the

649
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: practice squad. I hope they make that permanent and this

650
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: year it can be the Triple A team and then

651
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: maybe next year as we've got to handle on the

652
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: virus and hopefully we have a vaccine that can truly

653
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: be a place where we can see some development for

654
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Speaker 1: some of these young players, as well as another league

655
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: like the XFL, as we've talked about. But there's a

656
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: gap there that needs to be filled, and I hope

657
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: the NFL will do it. Yeah, Like, I think it's

658
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: interesting what um your conversation brought out. Um, even with that,

659
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: when you talked about the positions, I do wonder if

660
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: we go through it and we think about the sixteen positions,

661
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: Like you talked about three or four offensive lineman, a

662
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: handful of corners. I would think there would be a

663
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: couple of linebackers there, maybe one inside, one outside UM

664
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Speaker 1: running back, a couple of wide receivers, quarterback that we've

665
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: already talked about, probably a veteran quarterback UM that is

666
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: able to kind of come off the bench and be

667
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: able to play. And then a handful of us sort

668
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: sort of guys that can come in and just maybe

669
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Speaker 1: do some multi positional cross train stuff. That would be interesting.

670
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: But I still believe, like even we talk about the

671
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: lack of developmental players on the squad, it does have

672
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: to be like my minor leagues. Uh, coming off a

673
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: night in which I watched Moneyball all over again, UM, Yeah,

674
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: you gotta you have to get it. You have to

675
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: have some guys that that can play, and you have

676
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: to be able to really um trust those guys, and

677
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: you have to get those guys reps. Uh. Some years

678
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: we've seen where the practice squad guys don't get many

679
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: reps in in in the real team practice part of it.

680
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: I think you have to get those guys enough reps

681
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: because on a Saturday, they may be pressed into duty

682
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday without having a lot of time because of

683
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: COVID or an outbreak or anything crazy. And so this

684
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: year more than any other year, if you're management, you

685
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: have to be on your coaches to make sure that

686
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: the young guys, the developmental squad that they're getting work

687
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: before practice, after practice, and during practice with the regular

688
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: defense and the regular offense. Yeah. I mean that's it's

689
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: a challenge. You gotta keep a lot of guys ready

690
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: to go. I gotta be ready to play to be

691
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: able to get out there in a minute's notice. Uh.

692
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: One thing here on the college front, we talked about it.

693
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons are buddy. Bruce Felbon just wrote another article

694
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: about him, so we encourage you to go check that out.

695
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: It's it's on the athletic but Bruce talking to some

696
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: opposing defensive coordinators and position coaches about him, and he

697
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: is a special player man. He is a special, special player.

698
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: And and as we get there, I'm excited kind of

699
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: getting my first look at all these players to then

700
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: get a chance, as we kind of get that that

701
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: bass layer, to really go back in and really do

702
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: some more work on these guys. And just watching three

703
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: games on Micah Parsons is talent, jumps off that jumps

704
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: off the tape, very talented player, very talented player. And

705
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: I think, um with Mica and this is what a

706
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: lot of Scots are gonna have to do. You have

707
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: to go back to high school. Because when Michael Parson

708
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: was in high school, I think he's from Harrisbury, Pennsylvania.

709
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: Michael Parson has played with his hand down in the dirt.

710
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: He had never stood up. He was never a guy.

711
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: Now he was kind of like the freak athlete that

712
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: could do whatever you wanted to do in high school.

713
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: But the bulk of his time in high school was

714
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: as a pass rushing with his hand in the dirt.

715
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: Only Appian State has he been able to kind of

716
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: move around and kind of play some off the ball,

717
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: linebacker and some other stuff. And so when you look

718
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: at him, you have to understand where he is. Very

719
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: very early in the developmental process in terms of what

720
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: he could be very talented, fast, physical um, athletic um.

721
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: When people get around him and scouts began to dig in,

722
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: they have to make sure, uh, from a personality standpoint,

723
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: that he's ready to be a leader. Tremendous talent um

724
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: having been around him a little bit, some immaturity a

725
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: little bit, but that's what you expect when you're nineteen

726
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: twenty and those things five star five start. Yeah, So

727
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: you have to make sure that that your coaches are

728
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: able to take him where he is and continue to

729
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: elevate him because I believe he's always been able to

730
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Speaker 1: get away with his talent because he is so superiorly

731
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: talented to some other guys. But can you coach him

732
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: hard enough to get him to take his game from

733
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: good to great or from great to Pro Bowl All

734
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: Pro caliber very early, especially when he's only had two

735
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: seasons on the field. Yeah, it's one thing jumps out though. Man,

736
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: he can run, and we've talked about at the linebacker position,

737
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: you've gotta have guys who can really scoot now to

738
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: be able to cover these tight ends, to be able

739
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: to cover backs, and to be able to range sideline

740
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: to sideline blitz he he had. He can do all

741
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: those things. So it's just some refinement that will take

742
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: place there. But there's a lot to work with. I

743
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: want to get to what happened with with the Washington

744
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: football team here. I gotta used to saying that that's

745
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: weird w f T the Washington football team. It's like soccer,

746
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: it's likely premierly can we I was almost hoping that

747
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: we would have that like kind of that gap period,

748
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: remember when it was the artist formerly known as Prince. Yeah,

749
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: almost I need that. Yeah, just for this like a

750
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: little bit, I can transition to getting used to not

751
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: saying it. But you know, neither here nor there. Um.

752
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: But a guy that I was around, j Wright, was

753
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: running back out of Northwestern when I was with the

754
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. He was on the team there and I

755
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 1: didn't know him extremely well, but what a great dude

756
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 1: man and had an unbelievable reputation coming out Jim Naggy.

757
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: If you want to see about his background, go go

758
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: follow our buddy Jim Naget Senior Bowl and look at

759
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: his notes on him when he was coming out of Northwestern,

760
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: I believe in two thousand and four. But somebody that

761
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: is uh is only thirty eight years old right now,

762
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: and he becomes the NFL's first African American team president,

763
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: so that's a very big deal. Also is the youngest

764
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: team president in the National Football League right now. And

765
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: if you've heard him speak, when you get a chance to,

766
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: uh to watch some videos on on him, I mean

767
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: you want to talk about somebody with a presence and

768
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: somebody that is a heck of a lot smarter than

769
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: you or I mean he is sharp and uh for

770
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: all that, for all that Dan Snyder's got critis criticized

771
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: for and wrong decisions or misteps here there, I think

772
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: they knocked this one out of the park. Yeah. No,

773
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: this is really a momentous occasion for him and people

774
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,479
Speaker 1: who talk about the diversity thing. But I'll talk about

775
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: it from for a former player standpoint. Um John Alway

776
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: is a guy who has made to transition to be

777
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: an executive VP and um kind of runs the Denver Broncos.

778
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: But for Jason Right to ascend from being a player

779
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: or running back in the league that played in a

780
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: few different spots, to then make his way in the

781
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: business world and to come back over to Washington and

782
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: be the president and even though he's overseeing the business

783
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: side of it. Um. I think what it does is

784
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: DJ we've been in those meetings where we're talking about

785
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: people's background and we're talking about guys coming into the

786
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: league and their intellect and what they can do and

787
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: what they offer in the locker room. Well, I think

788
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: what Jason does is he offers a blueprint for players

789
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: who want to be more than just athletes, who want

790
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: to be more than just coaches, to think about a

791
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: different path. And so hats off to him for being

792
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: able to kind of carve out a niche in the world.

793
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: And we'll see what he's able to do. But it's

794
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: a tremendous opportunity for him to blaze a new path,

795
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: not only from a diversity standpoint, but also for former

796
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: players who aspire to dream big dreams when it comes

797
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: to when they're playing days are done. Yeah, that's a

798
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: great story. Another great story of coming out of the

799
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: UH out of Washington's Alex Smith getting back on the

800
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: field after just a gruesome jury. It's a it's a

801
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: miracle that he's still has his leg, that he's still

802
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: walking and now to be out there, you know, practicing

803
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: in some capacity. Uh, is really cool to see that

804
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: was Um. I thought that was really a highlight. It's

805
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: been a long time since we've said, you know, coming

806
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 1: out of Washington, we've had two of the better moments

807
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: of the week. Yeah, a long time coming. And Alex Smith,

808
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: the Alex Smith think is interesting. UM. I don't know

809
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: how closely you scrutinized, screwtinize some of the videos that

810
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: have come out or whatever with him moving around and

811
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: doing those things or whatever. Like. I certainly wish him

812
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: well and I hope that he's able to make the

813
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: full recovery to really play and play at the level

814
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: that he played at UM because if he is healthy,

815
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: I think healthy enough to play and play at the

816
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: level that he departed the field, he gives run rivera

817
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: an interesting option. And as we've talked about the practice

818
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: squad and we've talked about the guy coming off the

819
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: bench in a COVID situation, Alex Smith is the perfect

820
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: player to be the veteran to si BI while these

821
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: continue to fully recover to be in a position to

822
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: be able to go play mid season or later if

823
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: they really need him. I'm really intrigued by what he

824
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: can bring and look, they were gonna have to pay

825
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: him anyway. Sixteen point five million dollars is the cap hit.

826
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: But if he's able to offer anything as a player, man,

827
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: it's another feather in the cap of the Washington football team.

828
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: I just don't know, man, I put myself in Ron

829
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,959
Speaker 1: Rivera's situation there, and he's look, he's not anywhere close

830
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: to being able to play in a contact environment, just

831
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: from the little video that I've seen you not not

832
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: not not close. But I would have a hard time

833
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: if I'm putting myself in Ron Rivera's shoes, to say, Man,

834
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: if I put him out on the field, you imagine

835
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: like I just I would be. I'd be so nervous.

836
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 1: You know, it's so admirable, and so I respect him

837
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: immensely for being able to to get to where he's

838
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: gotten right now, I don't know that i'd have the

839
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,280
Speaker 1: courage as a coach to put him back in harm's

840
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: way after seeing what happened to his leg. If you

841
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: seen those pictures, man, it's you'll never unsee him. I

842
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: just I don't know if I could do it. I

843
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: don't know if I could have that on my conscious

844
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: that I'm putting you in harm's way anymore after seeing

845
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: what you've been through. But then what do we do

846
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: with it? We have to hold him on the squad

847
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: like he's paid, his money is guaranteed for this year. Um,

848
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: Like he can help Haskins, he can, he can certainly,

849
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: he can certainly help Haskins. He can be there, Like

850
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,720
Speaker 1: we've seen the guys that he was able to mentor.

851
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick played well with Alex Smith in his ear.

852
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes obviously soaked up all the knowledge and became

853
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: an m v P the as a first year starter

854
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: after Alex Smith really um opened up his arms and

855
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: shared a lot of information. And so he is definitely

856
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: a welcome mentor. And maybe just maybe, like maybe from

857
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: a ceremonious standpoint, they let him take a knee at

858
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: the end of a victory. They give him an opportunity

859
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: to kind of bring it full circle. But I was

860
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: say this one of the more resilient people that I've

861
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: ever seen in the National Football League to make it

862
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: back from where he was injured on the field November eighteen,

863
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: to come all the way back when many of us

864
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: didn't give him a chance of being back. Hass off

865
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: to him hass off to his family for enduring and

866
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 1: overcoming the challenges that were presented with the injury. Yeah,

867
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's quite an accomplishment there. I don't know.

868
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: I guess we can talk about this. I I gave

869
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:30,959
Speaker 1: you a buzz when I was driving drove my daughter

870
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: to college and Uh, I was driving. I want to

871
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: say it was Silver City, New Mexico, is when I

872
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: gave Buck a call um just to see if he

873
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: remembered UH cruising through there at Western New Mexico University,

874
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: I believe is the name of it. For a linebacker

875
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: back in the day, we had to go through there

876
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 1: and scout. Not a big fan of the area. I'm

877
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you. I I there's lots of

878
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: areas of the country that I enjoy. That was not

879
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah. That was interesting and it was

880
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: interesting that you were doing the drive and it brought

881
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: back some some memories. I can't say all of them nightmares. Yeah. Yeah,

882
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: that's man, that's a ride. DJ Like, how long how

883
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: long did it take you to get your daughter? It

884
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: was nineteen nineteen hour drive nineteen and a half total.

885
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: I went into it with the goal of ten hours

886
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: day one like nine and change. Day two really kind

887
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: of split it fifty fifty I got, but I got

888
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: my road dog juices flowing a little bit when I

889
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: got out there. I told you, I'm not going to

890
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: drive at night. So I got up. We got out

891
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: the door at six buck I was gonna stop in

892
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: Los Cruses. I got to Los Cruses. I looked at

893
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: my son. I had my son drive with me, so

894
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: he's thirteen, So he's sitting there and just watching movies,

895
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: hanging out. I ended up flying my daughter and my

896
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: wife out so we can meet him there, and uh,

897
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: I'm We're driving and uh we hit Los Cruises and

898
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, I'm I feel great, Let's keep going. Hey,

899
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: I said, we get the El pass Let's go to

900
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: El Passo. So we get the El Passo and I'm like,

901
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: let's just get to the next town. So I couldn't remember,

902
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: like there's gonna be something here in an hour or two.

903
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: Be fine. So I have him like doing all the

904
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: work on the phone to find the map, and I'm like,

905
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: all right, look at the Marriott properties, like what do

906
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: we got coming up? And he's like, really kind of

907
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: the next decent sized town is Odessa. How far is that?

908
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: It's like four hours? I'm like, oh man, I did

909
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: not know. So I ended up doing fifteen and change

910
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: on day one. Really yes, we didn't get in a

911
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: hotel till like midnight. Uh so we did a full

912
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: fifteen and then I got up the next day and

913
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, I've done all the hard work. The

914
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: four hour drive on day two was harder than the

915
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: fifteen hour because I was wearing that fifteen hour back

916
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: and neck um that I had to do for the

917
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: four hour day on day two. You remember those days,

918
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: oh man, Look, coming from l A. The longest drift

919
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: that would make would be the first one, and I

920
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: would go straight from l A to Utah. I would

921
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: go from l A to like Salt Lake City. Um,

922
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: it's about about like ten ten ten eleven, so like

923
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: somewhere there, because it's like three and a half fur

924
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: to Vegas and then you have another like six or so.

925
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: So I was trying to get out do the Utah

926
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: schools and kind of do that loop or whatever. But

927
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: then the the secondary loop that I would do is

928
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: leave the house l A and then make my way

929
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: the way that you were going, like through Arizona to

930
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: New Mexico up to Albuquerque and then come back around.

931
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: But DJ man, man, hats off to you, like, I'm

932
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: definitely not in driving shape. And I don't know what

933
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: it was like for you when you got on the

934
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: plane and when you got back home. The plane ride

935
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: was easy. I'll tell you what. I never appreciated a

936
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: plane ride like that one in a while. But I remember,

937
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I going to college. We drove straight through

938
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: a thirty three hours to get from from San Diego

939
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: to North Carolina, my brother and I, so we would

940
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: take turns um and we just drove. We drove straight

941
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: through and then I drove when I was in Louisiana

942
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: was twenty three hours and I did that one straight

943
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: a couple of times. But um, as you get older

944
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: like that those days or fifteen was a good That

945
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: was a good. That was a good long one for me.

946
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: And I was My back was so stiff. There's nothing

947
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: good about it, absolutely nothing good about it. But we

948
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: got there. We gotta all settle then she's good. Um um,

949
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: so man, it's weird. It's weird to have a college

950
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: age child. I can tell you that that that'll age

951
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: you real quick. Yeah, I can imagine, I can imagine

952
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: coming back. It's coming, It is coming. My little my

953
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: little guys kind of visited around schools. He's a rising senior. Uh.

954
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: This weekend he played in a Baseball Showcase event in

955
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: Sam Bernardino. Man, you talk about hot hot, don't you

956
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: don't know hot until you in Sam Bernardino And it

957
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: is a hundred at nine a m. And he's out

958
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: there playing blesses. That's where Jim Moore had the had

959
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: U c l A working out. Why brutal smoking? But um, yeah,

960
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: no DJ, I'm like the sands of the hour glass

961
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: and quickly dwindling through. And you talk about that drive.

962
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like, hey, dude, let's try and keep this

963
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: within a four mile radio so I don't have to

964
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: do these long draft Hilarious. That's a nice thing about

965
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: my daughter going to school in Dallas is I'm like,

966
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: at least that's easy, easy flight wise, you an easy outdirect,

967
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: no issues? Um all right. Inspired by ongoing conversations with players,

968
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: the NFL launched NFL Votes to empower and improve our

969
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,320
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970
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Speaker 1: family by registering to vote today and make your voice

971
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: heard this November. Visit NFL dot com slash votes to

972
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: learn more. Um, but we had some sad news this

973
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: last week. UH with Howard Mudd, legendary coach is I

974
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: think believe it is a unbelievable player as well. We

975
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: talked to him about that during his visit with us

976
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: when we did our offensive line episode of our Position

977
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: Prototype series. Howard Mud. If you watch the Colts play

978
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: during Peyton Manning's tenure, there you saw him on the

979
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: sideline as the offensive line coach and just as good

980
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: as it gets. Unfortunately, was in a motorcycle accident and

981
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: UM was in the hospital for a while. Fortunately did

982
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: not make it. He passed away on August twelve. UM,

983
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: but I want to just run back a little snippet

984
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: of our conversation we had with him, just so if

985
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 1: you if you aren't familiar with Howard Muddy, just give

986
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: you a little idea of just how smart this guy

987
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: was talking about the game of football. If people were

988
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: listening and wondering, UH, in terms of breaking it up

989
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: percentage wise, the amount of time you would spent on

990
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: the run game versus the amount of time you would

991
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: spend on the passing game. What would that look like

992
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: in today's game? I think you you spend the most

993
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: amount of time on the most difficult thing. The most

994
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: difficult is past protection. And even if it's an inordinate

995
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: amount compared to if it's disproportionate or whatever, that that

996
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: prasiology is two. If if you spend uh, let's say

997
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: that individual time, practice time, that sort of thing. If

998
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: you throw the ball six of the time, I'd spend

999
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: eighty percent of my time doing something in past protection

1000
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: when I can pass protect. I feel so good about

1001
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: where I'm at because all of the body movements that

1002
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: are that are required to react to the man and

1003
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: redirect myself, get myself in the right position. Don't get

1004
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: faked out. Um, you don't know what to do with

1005
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: each little movement he makes. If he bullrushes me, I

1006
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: know how to do that. You know. I'm a maverick.

1007
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 1: I spin and hop and do all kinds of stuff.

1008
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: I do everything that I can to keep myself in

1009
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: front of that guy. Most of all of them are

1010
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: athletic things. Because the football I think, I don't think

1011
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: football is an offensive vironment isn't played with strength and power,

1012
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: is played with leverage, quickness. That's what it's played with.

1013
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: If you're strong and you're quick and agile and have balance,

1014
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: and you know, you got a Hall of Famer. Well

1015
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: Buck Again, I would encourage everybody if if you have

1016
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 1: the time, to go back and find that prototype series

1017
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: and go listen to the offensive Line episode and you'll

1018
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: hear the entirety of that Howard mud interview. Um, You'll

1019
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: you'll learn quite a lot about him. Interesting man. I

1020
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: tried to describe him this way as somebody uh sent

1021
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: me a text about it, and I said, he's he

1022
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: was the kindest curmudgeon that I ever knew. You know,

1023
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: I worked with the with the with the Philadelphia Eagles,

1024
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: and he had this reputation as kind of a curmudgeony,

1025
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: grumpy guy. But I went down to his office and had,

1026
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: you know, several conversations with him about offensive line play,

1027
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: and that was kind of a little example of it. Uh.

1028
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: They're uh, just someone that that will go down in

1029
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,720
Speaker 1: history and I think belongs to the Hall of Famous

1030
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: an assistant coach. Look, he did did a great job,

1031
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: did a great job of taken a cast of characters,

1032
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that were underrated, undervalued, in the

1033
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: process and turn him into very very solid players. Um,

1034
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: I think of the work he did with a former

1035
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: teammate of mind, Jeff Saturday. Jeff Saturday was an undrafted

1036
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: free agent when the Baltimore was cut, was home, goes

1037
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis and becomes a multiple time Pro Bowl player

1038
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: under Howard Mudd's tutelage. And so Howard Mud leaves a legacy. Uh,

1039
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: You've talked about some of the things that you learned

1040
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: just from observing him practice, the way he was short

1041
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: teach a short set for some offensive lineman and the

1042
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: way that they would finish. And so look, he leaves

1043
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 1: a legacy that we will continue to say, Ole brand

1044
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: and you're right, you talked about a guy whoga is

1045
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: worthy of God Jacket. Howard Mud is certainly worthy of

1046
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: consideration as a Joe Go jack At candidate, no doubt.

1047
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 1: So again, encourage you to go check that one out.

1048
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: You can go find I think at NFL dot com

1049
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,439
Speaker 1: slash MTS prototype. I think they still have all those

1050
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: episodes at that website, so you can go find it there. Again,

1051
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: encourage you, as we have been doing lately, to check

1052
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: out the new Hard Hard Knocks podcast hosted by our

1053
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: buddy Peter Schreeger Um. Episode two of that show, Hard

1054
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: Knocks airs Tuesday, August at ten pm Eastern on HBO.

1055
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: We've been encouraging you guys to leave us ratings and

1056
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: reviews on Apple Podcast. You guys did a great job

1057
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: of that. We appreciate it. We've also challenged you to

1058
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: go on there and let us know who the best

1059
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: high school football player you've ever seen, because we've we've

1060
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: done a bunch of interviews and had a bunch of

1061
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: conversations and unearthed a lot of cool names through this process.

1062
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: And now that we've put it out to you guys,

1063
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: you guys have given us some names, uh some of

1064
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: them that we hadn't heard in terms of the best

1065
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: high school football player you've ever Seene to Bill, what

1066
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: are some of the names that have come rolling in?

1067
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Speaker 1: Uh M J D, Kevin Falk, Micah Hyde, Kyler, Murray

1068
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:14,720
Speaker 1: Lamar Houston, Tavon Austin, like Vince Young, Ronald Curry, Bryn Renner,

1069
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: Dylan Mitchell. A lot a lot of names are coming in.

1070
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: That is a lot of names there. Who stands out

1071
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: to there, Buck, because I'm sitting there looking at that

1072
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: list thinking Tavon Austin. Tavon Austin's college highlights were unbelievable.

1073
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: I can't imagine watching him in high school, high school.

1074
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: I want to say in high school he was Gatorade

1075
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 1: Play of the Year in Maryland. He may have run

1076
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: for maybe twenty six hundred yards as a tailback, like unbelievable.

1077
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: I think Lamar Houston. People haven't seen Lamar Houston, who

1078
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: was a defensive van pass first three years were thirty

1079
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: three or forty four? I said thirty three, you know

1080
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: what because he was a running back in high school.

1081
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, So I mean, I don't know how many

1082
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: pass rushes you've seen that Rod. But he Sons was

1083
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: unbelievable running back in you know, like big time guys. Uh.

1084
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: I think the one? Uh? Who else? Like there was

1085
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: just mentioning on their list? Did I hear m J D? Yes? There?

1086
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 1: Ronald Curry was also an outstanding UM high school player.

1087
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: Like this is the thing, this, this really opens up UM.

1088
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: It has to be talked about. You know, I love

1089
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: it gives us, it gives us. We have the resources

1090
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: with our relationship with Huddle to be able to unearth

1091
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 1: some of these so that's what I'm saying. We're gonna

1092
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: we'll work out. That's a project Mark, And Mark doesn't

1093
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 1: know what we're signing him up for this, but whoever,

1094
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: we got to get on that and to Bill our

1095
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: June or whatever. But it gives us a chance to

1096
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: kind of our favorite high school highlights of some of

1097
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: these players. So that keep keep keep those names coming

1098
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: if you haven't already dropped a review on there on

1099
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: Apple podcast and let us know you know what you think.

1100
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: Who's the best high school football player you've ever seen?

1101
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: Mark saying, that's a job for my internal Mark. He's busy.

1102
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: I've got him and he's got he's busy. Is this

1103
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: is this is NFL this official NFL media business here

1104
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: that we're talking about. Um, all right, Buck, is there

1105
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: anything else you want to add before we jump out

1106
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: of here? You no, I mean, great podcast, great weekend.

1107
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: I'm glad to have football back. Guys have patted it up.

1108
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get some clips and some inside on

1109
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: what some of these scrimmages and live live techno driwels

1110
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: look like. Some of these Thursday all Americans, Buck, They've

1111
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 1: had their day in the sun. The pads come on.

1112
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: Now we find Yeah, now we get to see who

1113
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: can really play. Yes, ye, all right, that's gonna do

1114
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: it for us. I want to thank the Bill for

1115
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: all his work putting this thing together. I appreciate you

1116
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Speaker 1: guys checking us out. We'll catch you next time. Right

1117
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Speaker 1: here on, move the sticks.